
Budge was educated in Halifax schools and at Dalhousie University (degree in Philosophy and Psychology, Diploma in Education, Physical Education teaching certificate). She did two years of graduate work in English at the University of Toronto, and worked at the Institute of Child Study (U. of T.) for four years—filing, illustrating, editing, writing. She illustrated three books for the University of Toronto Press, worked for several years as a freelance commercial artist and child photographer, and was a fitness instructor from 1968 to 1989. She has been writing juvenile and adult fiction since 1978, with her first book published in 1984. Her work has been published in ten countries and in seven languages. After living in Ontario for over twenty-five years, Budge and Alan returned to Nova Scotia in 1989, and live in a small fishing village on the South Shore of the province.
Series
Books

Cordelia Clark
1994

The Fear of Angelina Domino
2000

The Leaving and Other Stories
1991

Before Green Gables
2008

Thirteen Never Changes
1989

A Fiddle for Angus
2001

Trongate Fury
2005

Our Canadian Girl
Izzie
2002

Patricia's Secret
2005

Fractures
Family Stories By Budge Wilson
2002

The Long Wait
1997

Friendships
2006

Homecoming
2006